On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 2008, at 13:23 , Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
>> You are insulting other Unixes. It works on Mac OS X, for example.
>> Not just that, but IIRC Linux was late to the party: Solaris got /
> dev/fd/ and /dev/stdin before Linux got /proc/$$/fd/ (which gets
> symlinked to /dev/fd/).
Yeah, among people who don't know much about UNIX, Linux gets a lot
of credit for things it borrowed. But /dev/stdin isn't a standard
feature of UNIX, if you count AIX for example as a UNIX platform.
And apparently you can compile Haskell programs on AIX - thanks to
the original poster in this thread's work with GHC - so there you go.
Donn